EXTRACTS FROM THE LAST MAIL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 2, 3 January 1868, Page 2

EXTRACTS FROM THE LAST MAIL.

A young man, who gave lus name as liiomas Doyle, surrendered himself to the Dublin police, and suited that it wns he who shot polije-oonsta.-ble O'Neill last year, lie said that lie was under the influence of drink at the time, and did not know what lie was doing. The crime had weight d heavily on bis mind ever t-ince, and he cou.d no longer be-tr it without giving himself up. He was rcniainied until Friday He also accused himself as the murderer of George Clarke, who was shot on the banks of the canal last _s ear. In .February last an old man named MTvenwn, who was known to have amassed ,£-00 or j_3"o, wliicb he usually carried about witb him, was found niurdeivd at Birkenhead and his hoard .stolen. _>othii;g could ai the lime tie discovered of the murderer; but tbe exertions of ihe po:ice have been uiiremitiing, and tliey have ju^t apprel ended at Dundaik a man they believe to be the criminal. At the time of lhe murder he was penniless and poorly clad. Ue disappeared frum his former haunts, and located himself at Dundaik, where he has since been living 'on his means.' An elderly married woman, living in London, was persuaded l>y a young man to leave her husband, and take a quantity of furniture with her to a lodging he had engug.d for tbem. When she went there sbe found to her chagrin that a young woman, the sweetheart of the young man who had persuaded her to become faithless to her husband, had been tbere in the morning, and had stripped the place completi ly. Hie went home and made a clean breast of it to her 'old man,' and together they went to the Marlborough street police magistrate to ask for advice, .'ihe old couple, wiio, notwithstanding what occurred, appeared to be on very good terms, were referred to a police inspector. John Stear, a mechanic at Leeds, went to D.ncaster races. lie lost on tbe St. Leger, and returned home and hung himself. The goods of a woman named Wager, residing at Haminersfleld were distrained for rent. Un the bailiff asking what were the contents of a tin canister, sh« exclaimed, 'I will soon show you,' and striking a iucifl-r applied the flame to the lid. 'J he canister contained gunpowder, but, providentially, uo explosion took place, bhe has been committed for trial. A young man and a young lady \vho had ar-rived-in Oswestry attended the Christy Minstels' entertainment at tbe Public hall iu the town. A puliceo an arrived to look after the young lady, who was tbe daughter of of a Shropshire clergyman, and who had eloped witli a carpenter's apprentice. At the door of the hall the young lady wns met by ti.e policeman, who endeavored to pervade her to return home, but in vain. She asserted that, being of age, she should please herself. A sin-tular char_a of fraud has been investigated atthe London Mansion House, in U-6_j a steamship, called the (jlongUe, left Glasgow for China, and at liong Kong, owing to some dispute, U,e muster discharged the crew. One of tbem named Biidgeman, found his way to Londou. and calling upon ihu owners of tbeG engyle, -Messrs M-ckey, Miitheson, & Co., demauded compensation for illegal dismissal. The matter was referred to the B_ud of Trade in the usual way, and £i0 wsn Op ilered to tie t aid to Bridgeman. Having got this, he set about inducing men to personate others of the crew of the Glengyle, and succeeded in six cases in getting £211 eacb for supposed stokers and others belonging to the vessel. The fraud was discovered through one ofthe men who hid been personated making application to M ..-srs Maekay and Matheson for compensation. Bridgeman was remainied. There has been another eruption at Mount Hecla. It was terrible that people living JoO miles distant were nearly .ufLcated by the sulphurous fumes Iroiu the volcano. An unfortunate workman at Barnsley, who expressed sympathy with the Fenian outrage at Manchester, narrowly escaped death. inituediritely upon his opinion being made knowu. a jury of bis fellow-workmen was empanelled: he was tried, found guilty and sentenced io be hanged, and the sentence was actually being carried ouc literally, when the rope was cut by some of the bystanders, who had become conscious of the danger in which ail of them were placed. Why is a laundry-maid a greater navigator than Cook, l'any, or b'rank.in ? — Because she passes from pole to pole with ease aud crosses the hue many times a day.